A Thumping Legacy

A farce by John Maddison Morton (1811–1891)

The original text

Often subtitled, or alternatively titled, The Cockney in Corsica

First performed in London as A Thumping Legacy in 1843, and published in the same year by T.H. Lacy (London), G. Berger (London) as well as Samuel French (London and New York) as "A Thumping Legacy; an original farce, in one act".

Performance history in South Africa

1852: Performed on Tuesday 13 April and again on 21 April by the Amateur Company under the title The Thumping Legacy in the Garrison Theatre, as one of three fundraisers for the survivors of the troop ship Birkenhead. It played as afterpiece to Don Caesar de Bazan, or Love and Honour (Webster and Boucicault).

1854: Performed under the title The Thumping Legacy by the Amateur Theatrical Society Port Elizabeth in the new Port Elizabeth Theatre on Fridy 7 July, with The Road to Ruin (Holcroft).

1855: Performed under the title The Cockney in Corsica in the Drawing Room Theatre, Cape Town, on Friday 13 July 1855 by Sefton Parry, as a benefit performance for the Patriotic Fund, along with A Capital Match (J.M. Morton) and Monsieur Jacques (Barnett).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton

The Spectator, 18 February 1843, p.15[1]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 402-3, 508

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